Chapter 190: A Life Fooled by the Strong
No, not Xiao Yu.
Xu Chuchu was startled and saw it wrongly in panic.
The person sitting on the "throne" was not a living person, but a well-made dummy.
But this mannequin is too similar to Xiao Yu, the figure, hairstyle, clothing... even the eyebrows and nose bridge are all restored one to one.
Xu Chuchu even felt that the level of simulation was comparable to that of modern Madame XX wax museums.
She walked around the bottles and jars on the ground and took a closer look.
She didn't know what the skeleton of the mannequin was made of, but looking at the exposed hair and skin, it was obvious that they were all from a real person!
The hair was fine, but the large patches of skin on the hands and face were smooth and intact, as if they had been carefully peeled directly from a person. I don't know how they were preserved, but there was no sign of decay at all.
Why, why was a dummy body that looked exactly like Xiao Yu placed right above the energy ball?!
Looking at the current scene, four words emerged in Xu Chuchu's mind: curse the altar.
The altar used for cursing is different from the ordinary altar downstairs that suppresses wronged souls. It is another kind of high-level evil method similar to the sacrifice to the Dragon King.
By making a lifelike mannequin, beating it, pricking it with needles, or even pouring oil on it and burning it, one can curse the person being imitated to get sick, have bad luck, or even die.
Some of the curses of needle-stitched paper figures and voodoo dolls that are popular among the people are simplified versions of this type of altar.
Xu Chuchu immediately checked the dummy's body, and sure enough, he found long and thin iron needles in several acupoints including Shenting, Tianquan, Jianjing, Zhongting, etc. The back of the neck and the palms were also painted with cinnabar, which smelled a bit like poison and was used to curse people.
Who was cursing him and when did it start?
Xu Chuchu changed her mind and turned around to look through the bottles and jars around her.
The jars were of different sizes, shapes and colors, and she immediately noticed the three largest green jars.
Each jar contains three thick incense sticks and is filled with burnt incense ashes. At the same time, a different word is written on the back of each jar.
They are "desire", "jealousy" and "restlessness" respectively.
Xu Chuchu's heart suddenly sank.
This is another common curse technique among evil practitioners. It cannot harm the body of the cursed person, but it can deepen his negative emotions to a certain extent.
For example, the "desire", "jealousy" and "irritability" in front of us correspond to deepening people's desire, jealousy and irritability.
But how deep the curse deepens depends on the feng shui of the curse altar, the materials used, and the cultivation level of the person who is cursing.
Like many village witches, if you give her a few taels of silver, she will set up a small altar and curse someone, causing them to have bad luck, lose money when going out, fall into a pit when walking, etc. Of course, cursing more often can also easily accumulate good karma for yourself.
But the current situation... Xu Chuchu could only say that it was unheard of.
At the center of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory's Eight Formations and Sixteen Postures, directly above the energy ball, lies the center of the vortex of Feng Shui and spiritual energy. A one-to-one replica of the real thing, personally choreographed by a seventh-rank master physiognomist...
Xu Chuchu had no way of estimating how powerful the energy of this altar was.
She suddenly realized why Xiao Yu's temperament suddenly changed.
Looking back now, desire, jealousy, and irritability... these were truly displayed in him.
He no longer had a sense of justice or love. All the good qualities he had before had completely vanished. All day long, he either wanted to vent his anger on her or imagined that she was having an affair with another man, and then he became jealous and crazy...
But why? Why did he strengthen his evil intentions?!
She understood formations, altars, and curses, but she just couldn't understand why someone would go to so much trouble, waste so much time and energy just to deepen Xiao Yu's evil thoughts.
Did the Grand Master have such a deep hatred for him? Wasn't it said that the Grand Master had adopted him for a period of time?
If you just want to deal with someone, is it necessary to go to such lengths? Wouldn't it be better to just kill them to vent your anger or capture them and torture them? It's not like the Grand Master can't do it.
Not to mention that Xiao Yu himself has the fate of a golden-scaled boa.
Xu Chuchu didn’t know how to deal with the current situation for a moment. She subconsciously wanted to destroy the altar, but what would happen if she destroyed it now?
As long as the energy ball downstairs was still there, as long as the tower didn't fall, as long as the Grand Master was still alive... even if she kicked over all those bottles and jars and tore the mannequin to pieces, the Grand Master could still rebuild it at any time. Maybe he would even kill her whole family.
And Xiao Yu... She had always been dissatisfied with Xiao Yu for not keeping the agreement between them, giving up on controlling herself, letting desire take over, and saying that she was a tool for her to vent her desires... Now the truth has turned everything upside down.
Who will pay for Xiao Yu's torture? Who will be responsible for her pain?
It's just a life of being fooled by the strong.
She was not relieved about the broken relationship, and was left with only anger at herself for being unable to change it.
"You look surprised, little girl." An old but gentle voice suddenly came from the door.
Xu Chuchu immediately turned around and took precautions. This voice... was indeed the Grand Master! The culprit behind all this!
The Grand Master had returned at some point, without the young monk following him. He only had a dark golden cane with him, and walked towards her step by step from the shadows.
Needless to say, the cane must also be a high-level magical weapon, no worse than her Floating Life Umbrella.
Coming with weapons, the purpose is self-evident.
Xu Chuchu took two steps back, scanning her surroundings with her peripheral vision. She was only at the fourth level of cultivation and didn't want to go head-to-head with a seventh-level Grand Master. She wanted to find a chance to escape.
Unexpectedly, the Grand Master laughed and said, "Don't be nervous, little girl. Don't be nervous. I knew you were coming when you first entered the tower. I wanted to remind you when you took the energy, but since you didn't take much, I thought I'd just give it to you as a favor."
"But if you come to the third floor, I can't just ignore it," he added.
Xu Chuchu did not let down her guard and held the umbrella tighter.
She now saw clearly that this old man, although seemingly amiable, was actually a ruthless killer and was not worthy of being a monk at all!
"So?" she asked the Grand Master, "What is the purpose of doing all this?"
Hearing her question, the Grand Master stopped and tapped the floor lightly with his cane.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light around the dummy in the center of the room.
The bright light gathered into silver energy lines, which wrapped around the dummy's body. The lower end extended to the ground, and seemed to connect with the energy ball on the second floor along the cracks in the floor.
And the part above... Xu Chuchu raised his head and was shocked to find that on the beam above his head, there was a dark-skinned dried corpse!
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